Glenn School hosts “racial cleansing” author

The Glenn School Policy Forum at Ohio State University will host author Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliott Jaspin to discuss his book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden Story of Racial Cleansing in America.
The discussion will take place April 27 from noon to 1;30 p.m. in Room 130 of Page Hall.

Please RSVP to [email protected].

Jaspin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of Cox Newspapers. A pioneer in the use of databases as an investigative technique, he founded the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting.

Jaspin will speak about his recently released book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden Story of Racial Cleansing in America. Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives and census records, the book provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race.
Time after time, in the period between Reconstruction and the 1920s, whites banded together to drive out the blacks in their midst. They burned and killed indiscriminately and drove thousands from their homes, sweeping entire counties clear of blacks to make them racially “pure.” The expulsions were swift—in many cases, it took no more than twenty-four hours to eliminate an entire African-American population. Shockingly, these areas remain virtually all-white to this day.

All events will take place from 12:00 – 1:15pm in Page Hall, located at 1810 College Road.

For more information about the Food for Thought series, please call 614-292-4545.